Friction drive



May 21, 1935. .o. OHNESORGE 2,002,126

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Patented May 21, 1935 7 .1 v i ".2,002',126. r 7 FRICTION DRIVE 7 Otto Ohnesorge, Bochum, Germany Original appIicatiOnApriI B',1929,, Serial No.

353,626." Divided and this application July'2,

' 193:, Serial No. 733,401. 'In GermanyJune 8',

19 I i v V 12 Claims. (01.14-224) This specification is a divisionlof my applicatooth l3. which, engage in transverse notches 3| tion for Letters Patent of the United States, for with which. the pulley provided. The said improvements in Friction drives, Serial No; 353,- band H has a. portion'thereoflooped about the 626, filed April 8, 1929, under the provision of periphery of thepulley in several turnsor con- 5 the lnternational. Convention. 7 l v I volutions and also engages idle pulleys Il ii. I!

Both in conveyor and in, stationary motor The endless cable l6 engageslongitudinal grooves plants it is in many instances necessary to, in in the outer sides of the shoe links of the endless ,crease the frictional cling or grip obtained by band as shown in Figure 2, so that the endless passing a rope, chain or similar pulling'or tensile band is interposed between the cable andthe pe agency, mostly to the. extent of one half but. in rip'heryrof the. drum. a 10 some cases also three-fourths around, over the Mounted in the drum orpulley ID are radially :periphery of a driving pulley. If with the, above arranged crank levers 38 the headsof which are object it is proposed to pass the rope etc. comguided in the slots 3| of the. crown of the drum pletely around the pulley or evento a greater exand come into engagement with the carriers l5 tent, the said pulling agency (rope etc.) must be (catches) l3 of the shoes H. These levers are 1 guided ina spiral winding. around the driving the shifting elements to operate the shoe links of pulley or drum. i 1 v the band and are distributed around the entire The object of this: invention is to provide an circumference of the pulley or drum as shown. improved friction drive for: the, pulling cable In order to loop the band anumber of times which, passes over the entire periphery or more around the driving pulley, it is necessary to carry 20 of a pulley, by which, no matter Whether a drive out the transverse displacement thereof over the of alternating or uniform direction of rotation entire circumference of the pulley and not in a is in operation, a,continuous persistence, of the locally'restricted place and that such shifting of loop or bightof the pulling cable in the samefcenthe chain or handover the entire circumference .25 tral plane is ensured without disturbances taking of the. pulley befcarriedout by elements or means place incident to displacement of the pulling which are supported on the pulley itself and agency relatively to the pulley. i which are therefore carried, by and moved with With the above and other objectsin view, the the pulley when the latter moves. The levers invention consists in the construction, combina- 38efiectthis.

, 30. ion and arrangement of devices hereinafter de- The. counter heads provided with ro11ers39 run scribed and claimed. v in a cam groove. llllying on a corresponding coni- In the accompanying drawings cal casing, which groove is in a body 4| which Figure 1 'is an elevation partly 'in'section'pf is. 'c'entered by the. shaft. of the drum Ill and is a friction drive mechanism constructedand arheldagainstltwist by the bearing 68. This groove rangedin accordance withmy invention, 4.0 shown in developed form in Figure 3 forms 35 Figure 2 is a transverse sectionalview of the a spiral stationary in space which effects a gradsame. 7 e l 3 'ual displacement of the shoe chain ll over the Figure. 3 is a detail elevation of a portion of the major portion of the periphery, while shortly fixed element which actuates the shifting elein front of the particular point of entry of the 40: merits, I length of chain the lifting off of the heads of 40 Figure 4 is a transversev sectional viewuof a the levers 38 from the chain; of shoes takes place Ymodiiied form of the invent and then after they have been placed against the Figure 5 isaSimila View of 3110171181 od fi newly entered length of chain, the work of disa form of the mventlon' placement is begun anew. In this manner the v Figure 6 is an elevation partly in section of summng up of an inaccuracies, if any, is avoid 4 5 1 gear teeth andtheopposite side is here shown i l fii the inveiltm 9 'ed. If the path described is too small then a e The figg fi g or g fg 2 2? g slight friction would take place between the two g W5 f f 33 :2 lengths of the shoe chain coming to lie against 51 e O 1 DJ p y l each other, if it is too great then thesecond length 50 would only place itself against the first somewhat ment by a, power transmitting beltll' I later than corresponds to the theory. As this is endless band or ha m b f a quite harmless, it is advisable to so dimension the number ofshoelinks hingedly connected together entire device from the outset that, the particular as circumferentially grooved as at 4,4 for engage-.

:5 and. prqvided ontheir inner sidesi eaeh with a, transverse displacement by the shifter device is 55 slightly greater from the outset than the width of the shoe.

In order to reduce the number of parts which is of particular importance in reversing drives only each second shoe H is actuated each time by the levers 38, this being done in its center, so that the shoe lying between is carried along by the two others; As is evident 'this' is perfectly permissible because this still provides with certainty for the several shoes to be carried over the entire periphery. point of entry of the chain of shoes, where the lifting off of the levers from the shoes H takes place, will the chain then be free over some length. In order, however, to limit suitably the free lengths, lateral limits 42 are suitably provided on the periphery of the drum, which each time take up at this point temporarily the duty of the displacing levers. j

If this arrangement is used for a reversing drive then a'certain disagreement would thereby result between forward run and backward run, because these two would now not exactly coincide. This;can, however, be obviated, as illustrated in Figure 2 by. providing a certain amount of play between the shifter device for forward running and that for backward running. This -play or backlash (slop) will, in the present case, not result in an impact orblow because it only permits a slight lateral travel of the chain of shoes and the loop of rope before the shifter device comes into action. By permitting this entirely harmless lateral travel the jammings which would result from the above mentioned disagreements as in all so-called mechanisms in an overrigidly closed circle are obviated.

This form of the invention, in addition to the advantageous features in principle described above, shows a further advantage because the driving crown 43 and the brake crown 44 can now directly connect with the friction drum I0 as is the case with wire rope haulage or tramlines above all in mines. If the rollers 39 are themselves made to run on roller bearings, then the frictional work will even be reduced much further.

The same idea may also be carried intoeffe'ct by a continuously operating shifter gear'as illustrated in cross-section in Figure 4. r The shoes I l which run onto-the drivingpulley 10 and form the groove for the'rope l6 have teeth 58 of a pitch proportional to the distance between the adjoining lengths of pulling rope in the ratio of 1 to l,

1 to 2 etc., in which the crown wheel arranged with a certain pitch in the drum engages. By the aid of pairs of bevel wheels 59, 60, and shafts '33, the spur wheels 39 are engaged with'the bevel wheel pairs 34, 35, of which is a central wheel revolving loosely on the shaft. This latter wheel again by its toothed crown 5! is in engagement with the gear wheel 62 mounted stationary, the second toothed rim of which meshes with the central pinion 63 fixed on the shaft. Owing to the difference between the ratios of these spur. wheel bearings a differential gear is produced by which on rotation of the pulley iii the shoes H are each time shifted by one width. In this way, therefore, for both directions of revolution, a constant displacement of the chain of shoes as it runs on is provided so that the groove for the rope It represents an accurate spiral always lying in the same central plane.

A particularly efficient constructional form of this idea is shown in Figures 5 and -6 in vertical section and elevation. Here the pulley ID has on Only at the particular lower half of the driving pulley l9.

its periphery divided displacing (shifting) worms 3!! which are driven by pairs of bevel pinions 59', 6B, shafts 33, bevel pinions 3 3, from the fixed central wheel 35. As here again the teeth projecting beyond the sectional profile of the chain shoes II in the first place will unfavorably increase the height of the shoes, so that the free sag for the chain loop would have to be increased and on the other hand would provide the possibility of entanglement, the teeth are as illustrated in'Figures 5 and 6, shifted into the interior of the sectional profile. In this case there corresponds to the one direction of winding on of the chain (right hand winding on) the one direction of feedof the displacer device, and to the other direction of' winding on (left hand winding) the other direction of feed of the displacer device.

The loop of chain shoes is in this case guided according to Figure 6 so that in the event of a pulley or drum hoist for shafts, with lengths of rope I6 running obliquely to the pulley on the hoisting framework, the chain of shoes is on thirds of the periphery in order to permit of free crossing by the pass-over loop, with corresponding sag over the lengths of chain lying on the be expressly pointed out that by this additional winding of the chain of shoes'round the pulley the work of transverse shift is practically not increased, because the free lengths of chain are not under the load of the rope tension.

If this new drive is compared with previous pulley drives or rope haulage, in which the rope only surrounds half the periphery of the pulley, then the following is evident: while maintaining all advantages of pulley haulage especially as regards the fact that the rope remains con-' stantly lying in the same central plane and with only one curve (bend) of the rope, an increase of the encirclement of the pulley to three times the amount is secured whereby all imaginable requirements of actual operation for increase of the frictional grip are more than amply provided for.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:,

1. In combination with a pulley and a cable having a portion thereof looped about the periphery of the pulley, an endless band loosely wrapped around the periphery of the pulley between the same and the cable and on the outer side of which the cable engages, and displacing elements comprising levers carried by and mounted on the pulley and at their outer ends engaging a plurality ofthe links of said band; a fixed element having a helical groove forming a cam engaged by the inner ends of said levers and by which said levers are controlled, said helical groove including an S-curve active to cause the levers at each revolution of the pulley to return toward the part of the endless band which is in engaging. relation with the pulley, so that the transverse displacement proceeds always from the same neutral point.

2. In combination with a pulley and a cable having a portion thereof looped about the pe-, ripheryof the pulley, an endless band loosely" wrapped around the periphery of the pulley between the same and the cable and comprising shoe links flexibly connected together and on the outer side of which the cable engages, and means,

for uniformly laterally displacing the shoelinks' It may here p on the pulley to the extent of the width of a shoe link for each revolution of the pulley and comprising levers carried by and mounted on the pulley and distributed around the circumference thereof, and means to actuate said levers.

3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, in which the means to actuate the shifting levers is a 4. In combination with a pulley and a cable having a portion thereof looped about the periphery of the pulley, an endless band loosely wrapped around the periphery of the pulley between the same and the cable and on the outer side of which the cable engages, displacing elements comprising levers carried byand mounted on the pulley and at their outer ends engaging a plurality of the links of said band, and a fixed element having a helical groove forming a cam engaged by the inner ends of said levers and by which said levers are operated. l

5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 4, in which the outer ends of the-leversbear against the endless band and shift the same gradually a.

distance corresponding to the width thereof.

6. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, in which there are two groups of the shifting levers, one arranged for operation in one direction of rotation of the pulley and the other arranged for operation in the reverse direction of such rotation and in which separate means are provided for actuating said groups of levers.

7. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, in which.

there are two groupsof the shifting levers, one arranged for operation in one direction of rotation of the pulley and the other, arranged for operation in the reverse direction of such rotation and in which separatemeans are-provided for actuating said groups of levers and in which the two groups of shifting levers are so spaced apart as to provide play for the endless band to avoid jamming when the rotation of the pulley is reversed.

8. Friction drive for ropes, chains and similar pulling means, consisting of a drum, an endless band of chain links laid around said drum in several convolutions, said chain links having a groove at their circumference for receiving the pulling means, so that it also surrounds the drum in more than one convolution, and. shifting elements by which the chain windings are gradually shifted for the width of the chain during each revolution, said shifting elements being mounted in the drum, and control elements by which the operation of the shifting elements is effected, said control elements being fixedly arranged near the shaft of'the drum.

9. Friction drive for ropes, chains or similar pulling means as claimed in claim 8, in which the'shifting elements are so provided that only every second chain link is directly shifted by the shifting elements.

10. Friction drive for ropes, chains and similar pulling means as claimed in claim 8, in which the point of attack of the shifting element is in the middle of the chainlink, so that the intermediate links-are indirectly taken along.

11. Friction drive for ropes, chains or similar pulling means as claimed in claim 8, in which the lateral shifting of the chain windings is effected by shifting levers mounted in the drum and controlled by a control member stationarily arranged near the shaft of the drum, the inwardly directed ends of said levers provided with rolls engaging a helical groove in the control membensaid groove being continuous in itself by an S-connection, so that the shifting levers after each revolution of the driving disc begin anew from the starting point of the groove to laterally shift the chain windings.

l2. Friction drive for ropes, chains or similar pulling means as claimed in claim 8, in which two groups of shifting levers are arranged within the drum, one of said groups acting in one direction of rotation and the other group acting in the opposite direction of rotation, and a control member is provided for each of said groups of shifting levers.

OTTO OHN'ESORGE. 

